[fvc-wat-disc] Fwd: Help on Twitter on committee days

[Sharon Sommerville]

Hi Kevin,

Just caught the last 10 minutes of today's afternoon proceedings.  Most
interesting.

Here is the schedule for tomorrow.  It is the only day this week with an
evening meeting.

If you let Jenn know that you want to tweet, she will send you some
background on tomorrow evening's speakers.

*Tuesday, July 26, 2016 *

*Meeting 1:*
*9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT)*

*Expert Witnesses:*
• Michael Marsh, Emeritus Professor, Trinity College Dublin
(by videoconference: Dublin, Ireland)

• Michael Gallagher, Professor of Comparative Politics, Trinity College
Dublin
(by videoconference: Dublin, Ireland)




*Meeting 2:2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EDT)*

*Expert Witnesses:*
• Patrice Dutil, Professor, Ryerson University

• Peter Russell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science,
University of Toronto




*Meeting 3:7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (EDT)*

*Expert Witnesses:*
• Tom Rogers, Electoral Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission (by
videoconference: Canberra, Australia New Zealand Electoral Commission
• Robert Peden, Chief Electoral Officer (by videoconference: Wellington,
New Zealand)


Thank you Kevin!

Sharon




On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Kevin Smith <kevedsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sharon:
>
> Are there evening spots for this?
>
> Kevin.
>
> On Jul 11, 2016 5:19 PM, "Sharon Sommerville" <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello FairVoters!
>>
>> We received this request from Anita Nickerson last week.   We are in
>> urgent need of people to tweet questions to the Electoral Reform Committee
>> in late July.  We were out numbered by people asking for a referendum last
>> week and really need to do better.
>>
>> Details are in the letter below.  If you can help, could you contact
>> Anita and cc me so I don't bother you again!
>>
>> With thanks,
>> Sharon
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson at fairvote.ca>
>> Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:30 PM
>> Subject: Help on Twitter on committee days
>> To: Sharon Sommerville <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>, Jennifer Ross <
>> jenn at jenniferross.ca>
>>
>>
>> Hi Sharon and Jenn.
>>
>> As you probably know, every time the Electoral Reform Committee meets
>> they are inviting the public to submit questions at #ERRE #Q.
>>
>> During the last session, the referendum advocates pretty much won the day
>> on Twitter with 16/29 questions (adding to the fact that the Conservatives
>> spend 99% of their speaking and questioning time making the same demands
>> about referendums and asking witnesses the same questions over and over
>> they're building their story about most Canadians want a referendum).
>>
>> *We need help to make sure that lots of PR supporters are tweeting great
>> questions, and retweeting the good questions/comments of others. *That
>> helps show strong support for PR and drown out the calls for a referendum.
>>
>> What we'd like to do is ask our team to sign up as many people as we can
>> into slots where they commit to be on twitter following that hashtag at a
>> specific time.
>>
>> We'll let our tweeters know ahead of time what witnesses will be
>> appearing that day, what they might expect to hear, and what some good
>> question topics might be.
>>
>> *Can you help with this by asking those you know are on twitter to
>> contact me about helping us?*
>>
>> Here is the committee meeting schedule for July - basically, July 25-28.
>> They haven't actually specified the times AM and PM but so far they've been
>> 10 AM - 12 PM and 2-4 PM EST.
>>
>>
>> *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing
>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing>*
>>
>> If you can ask people to volunteer and to tell me the info below that
>> would be a big help.
>>
>> a) What dates/times they are available
>> b) Their twitter handle
>> c) Their email
>>
>> Thanks so much for any help!!
>>
>> Anita
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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